http://www.doi.gov/news/030312.htm
http://www.anwr.org/backgrnd/potent.html
http://www.anwr.org/topten.htm
Why shouldn't we drill in ANWR? I see no reason to. The caribou population, which people were worried about with "the Alaska pipeline" earlier has been multiplied by ten since the pipeline was built. Also, only about 8% of it needs to be explored. The remaining 17.5 million acres is currently not planned to be explored. ANWR is a huge deal in insulating us from supply problems overseas. And it means a trillion dollars of outsourced dollars stay home. This snowballs into well over a trillion dollars of GDP when all is said and done. Additionally, that northern coastal plain area of ANWR was set aside for oil exploration by the 1980 Democratic Congress and Jimmy Carter, not Republicans. "The geologic indicators are very favorable for the presence of significant oil and gas resources in ANWR, but the limited data means that there is a high level of uncertainty about how much oil and gas may be present. Consequently, current estimates represent the best scientific guesses. However, most geologists agree that the potential is on the order of billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable gas and that these resources may rival or exceed the initial reserves at Prudhoe Bay. The validity of these estimates can be proved only by drilling exploratory wells. Authorization for exploration must be given by Congress and the President.
In 1996 the North Slope oil fields produced about 1.5 million barrels of oil per day, or approximately 25 percent of the U.S. domestic production. However, Prudhoe Bay, which accounts for over half of North Slope production, began its decline in 1988, and no new fields have yet been discovered with the potential to compensate for that decline." (http://www.anwr.org/backgrnd/potent.html)
http://www.anwr.org/backgrnd/potent.html
http://www.anwr.org/topten.htm
Why shouldn't we drill in ANWR? I see no reason to. The caribou population, which people were worried about with "the Alaska pipeline" earlier has been multiplied by ten since the pipeline was built. Also, only about 8% of it needs to be explored. The remaining 17.5 million acres is currently not planned to be explored. ANWR is a huge deal in insulating us from supply problems overseas. And it means a trillion dollars of outsourced dollars stay home. This snowballs into well over a trillion dollars of GDP when all is said and done. Additionally, that northern coastal plain area of ANWR was set aside for oil exploration by the 1980 Democratic Congress and Jimmy Carter, not Republicans. "The geologic indicators are very favorable for the presence of significant oil and gas resources in ANWR, but the limited data means that there is a high level of uncertainty about how much oil and gas may be present. Consequently, current estimates represent the best scientific guesses. However, most geologists agree that the potential is on the order of billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable gas and that these resources may rival or exceed the initial reserves at Prudhoe Bay. The validity of these estimates can be proved only by drilling exploratory wells. Authorization for exploration must be given by Congress and the President.
In 1996 the North Slope oil fields produced about 1.5 million barrels of oil per day, or approximately 25 percent of the U.S. domestic production. However, Prudhoe Bay, which accounts for over half of North Slope production, began its decline in 1988, and no new fields have yet been discovered with the potential to compensate for that decline." (http://www.anwr.org/backgrnd/potent.html)